Non smoking gun
Honorable
I don't see why aging would be a common attribute of evolved life.
When we get out there, I believe we will find most life never exhibited aging, it will still have children and evolve but just not fall apart as we do.
The first species in each galaxy to develop FTL capability will likely spread quickly and in the millions of years that follow would therefore make up the vast percentage of the total population.
Each galaxy will probably follow that pattern.
Many suggest two likely sources for the life on this planet, panspermia, most probably from cells from those initial species, or that we are a 'zoo' planet, deliberately seeded with many types of life with built in aging to ensure rapid evolution by reducing generational competition.
Another possibility exists. Geneticists today, to limit the possibility of unforeseen damage to ecosystems by gmo, are introducing genetic kill switches. For example, male mosquitoes are engineered so their offspring have a suicide gene that kills them early in the life cycle. The beauty of the technology though, is the suicide gene is not active in the initial released batch as their food is laced with tetracycline which inhibits the suicide gene for a while.
Could that be our genesis?
When we get out there, I believe we will find most life never exhibited aging, it will still have children and evolve but just not fall apart as we do.
The first species in each galaxy to develop FTL capability will likely spread quickly and in the millions of years that follow would therefore make up the vast percentage of the total population.
Each galaxy will probably follow that pattern.
Many suggest two likely sources for the life on this planet, panspermia, most probably from cells from those initial species, or that we are a 'zoo' planet, deliberately seeded with many types of life with built in aging to ensure rapid evolution by reducing generational competition.
Another possibility exists. Geneticists today, to limit the possibility of unforeseen damage to ecosystems by gmo, are introducing genetic kill switches. For example, male mosquitoes are engineered so their offspring have a suicide gene that kills them early in the life cycle. The beauty of the technology though, is the suicide gene is not active in the initial released batch as their food is laced with tetracycline which inhibits the suicide gene for a while.
Could that be our genesis?